New iPhone model leaves digital footprint in the wild

Statistics firm picks up unrecognised iPhone hardware designation

| Nov 30, 2009

Never a week goes by that a new iPhone or Apple rumour doesn't surface, but this is a very intriguing one.

According to MacRumours, iPhone developer Pandav has been monitoring the statistics of its San Francisco railway network application iBART, and noticed a hardware identifier that doesn't tally with existing models.

The iPhone 3GS was the last hardware model issued, which carries the identifier "iPhone2,1". These identifiers have given away plenty of Apple's secrets in the past, when code ninjas dug them out of new firmware releases, and iBART has apparently been used by a devices signed as "iPhone3,1".

Exactly what it is we're looking at here is anyone's guess - a new model of iPhone, presumably, but possibly even the fabled Apple Tablet - but it lends weight to the rumour that it's been spotted in the San Francisco area, where Apple is located.

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